What computer did you use before your beloved MacBook Pro?

[h1r0ll3r]

17" DV9000t. Thing is a beast, size wise. Decent specs but too bulky to travel with. Still use it as my portable desktop.

 

[AlphaDogg]

Late 2007 White MacBook. It was a great computer, until my dogs spilled water on it... Then, I got my MBP. I love both computers. The MacBook still works, but freezes all the time.

 

[Bumflake]

An Alienware M15x Core i7 720qm, 4GB DDR3, 256GB SSD, ATI 5850 and before that a couple of Dells and Thinkpads.
None of them beat my current 15" MBP i7 though.

 

[Lunchb0x8]

I used an ASUS F6Ve;

2.8GHz C2D
8GB DDR2
500GB 7200RPM
13.3" display

Was a beautiful machine, was sad to see it go, but I love my MBP!

 

[Hisdem]

A Toshiba Satellite L300D. Was heavy and the battery didn't last, but I was coming from an IBM thinkpad from 1992 with 12MB RAM (was my first laptop and computer).

Doesn't even compare to the MBP though!

 

[U88]

I had a sony vaio, but it was taken from me at gunpoint in Johannesburg, South Africa.

After that I was given a very small little acer I used until I picked up an old, hand-me-down Powerbook I believe.

Then just last year picked up my refurbed MBP I'm using now. LOVE IT!

I might be going to South Africa next summer, and will be in Johannesburg for the majority of my stay! :O

How long ago did it happen? (Sorry for being off topic)

 

[mgartner0622]

17" DV9000t. Thing is a beast, size wise. Decent specs but too bulky to travel with. Still use it as my portable desktop.

Me too, I had an 2.2GHz Core 2 Duo with the 8600M that had the same GPU type failures as the MBP's with that card.

I've also had an iMac G3, iBook G3 Clamshell, iBook G3, iBook G4,PowerBook G4 12", iMac G5, MacBook 2.0GHz Black, MacBook 2.4GHz Black, and now my current 2009 unit.

 

[samk8000]

I am just about to switch to a new MacBook Pro (13.3", 2.4ghz c2d) for video editing, app design, and web design. One word that will make you feel sorry for me sitting here typing this: Netbook.
Yes, Netbook. Okay, so it takes about two minutes to open Google chrome, never mind internet explorer. My mom's 8 year old Compaq Presario laptop is way faster. A whopping 256mb ram and 40gb hard drive... I don't know why though. Anyways I am so excited to buy my new MacBook Pro. I need less than $300 more and then I can buy it. I was going to just buy the normal MacBook, but it doesn't have firewire so I have to wait a bit longer, but I am sure that it will be worth it, many people love their macs so I am sure I will love mine too! And a good thing too, because I won't be able to afford another for about 5 years as I am only 13 and by the time I am able to get a job, I will have to save for university, but I think that I have done pretty good for a 13 year old.

 

[h1r0ll3r]

I am just about to switch to a new MacBook Pro (13.3", 2.4ghz c2d) for video editing, app design, and web design. One word that will make you feel sorry for me sitting here typing this: Netbook.
Yes, Netbook. Okay, so it takes about two minutes to open Google chrome, never mind internet explorer. My mom's 8 year old Compaq Presario laptop is way faster. A whopping 256mb ram and 40gb hard drive... I don't know why though. Anyways I am so excited to buy my new MacBook Pro. I need less than $300 more and then I can buy it. I was going to just buy the normal MacBook, but it doesn't have firewire so I have to wait a bit longer, but I am sure that it will be worth it, many people love their macs so I am sure I will love mine too! And a good thing too, because I won't be able to afford another for about 5 years as I am only 13 and by the time I am able to get a job, I will have to save for university, but I think that I have done pretty good for a 13 year old.

Netbook?!?! OUCHES

Sure you'll enjoy your new MBP whenever you lay hands on it. Ditched PC and never going back

 

[Jelite]

15.4" Sony VAIO which is now used as a Movie/TV Show/Porn Server.

 

[thejadedmonkey]

Gateway 200arc (Rebranded Samsung NX I think)... even though it was from 2005, it was somewhere in between a Macbook Air and a Macbook Pro, and simply irresistible.

 

[Radiosuit]

i used this bulky 15inch HP pavillion dv6000 running at 1280 x 800 res, i know a 15inch laptop running 1280x800, then my motherboard got damaged, replaced the motherboard and a few weeks later it got damaged again, so i just went to the apple store and got a brand new 13inch macbook pro, never looked back!

 

[Stinkysteve]

Before my MBP I had a 12" iBook G4 800 which replaced my G3 500 Pismo PowerBook.

 

[highADP]

Fujitsu C2220, then black macbook core duo 2.0 GHz.

 

[Moodikar]

12 macs so far...plus 1 TRS-80

I think my signature will show what I've owned but as of age 37, here's what I've owned prior:

as long as I could remember - TRS-80 Radio Shack (came with a tape recorder)...then
1988 - Mac SE/30
1994 - Macintosh 6100/66
1996 - Macintosh 7600
1998 - PB G3 wallstreet
1999 - Power Mac G3 - Blue and White
2000 - PB G4 Firewire pismo
2001 - Powerbook 15inch G4 titanium
2003 - Powerbook 17inch Aluminum
2006 - white Macbook 13inch core duo
2007 - black Macbook 13inch core 2 duo
2008 - Macbook Air 1.86 Ghz
2008 - Macbook Pro 2.53 Ghz 15inch
2009 - Macbook Air 2.13 Ghz (current main computer)
2010 - Macbook Pro 2.66 Ghz 13inch with 1tb hd, 8gb ram (which I just sold).

 

[lbro]

15" HP pavilion dv6000. 1.6GHZ C2D, 3GB ram, 250GB HDD. And windows vista... big leap to Snow Leopard.

 

[a-m-k]

15" HP pavilion dv6000. 1.6GHZ C2D, 3GB ram, 250GB HDD. And windows vista... big leap to Snow Leopard.

I think that was the same one I HAD (a family laptop), the stupid piece of crap would have had a 4th motherboard put in if my mom and dad mad a authoriative decision to ditch the piece of crap machine. How may times did you loose wiereless? How many times did your wireless LAN switch go out?

 

[HLdan]

Asus A8JS. The internals were solid at the time, casing is cheap plastic S***

Uglee

one of these monsters...

Ugly(er)

http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=5035&review=gateway+p7805u+fx

Gateway P7805u. Beast of a machine, with every comprehensible input port possible shy of serial.

Uglier than the previous

Before I got my MBP in '06, I did everything on my Thinkpad i Series 1200 with the 13.3" screen. I love that laptop to death, and it still works just as well as the day I bought it oh so long ago. It may not have the best specs in the world, but it gets the job done. I would gladly buy another Thinkpad without any hesitation.

Too Ughlee

Toshiba A300-1BZ

Couldn't be uglee(er), just the worst. Just YUK.


I've been a Mac user much longer than most here. My current is a Macbook Pro i5. My previous was a 13" MBP, then an AIR. Previously before that I had a 17" Powerbook, before then I had a white iBook G3.

 

[hhyy6634]

i got a 4 years old HP dv9000

 

[sjinsjca]

Another MBP.

 

[acurafan]

still have my xps m1330, it's still better than my white MB.

 

[lbro]

I think that was the same one I HAD (a family laptop), the stupid piece of crap would have had a 4th motherboard put in if my mom and dad mad a authoriative decision to ditch the piece of crap machine. How may times did you loose wiereless? How many times did your wireless LAN switch go out?

None of the hardware failed on mine although the battery life is just crap right now (I haven't even used the battery that often). The thing that got me to buy a new laptop is because my HP is sooooo sloooww. I open 6 or 7 tabs in Safari and it'll freeze and crash (this is a daily occurence). Vista was so slow, it would often freeze for a few seconds doing light tasks and startup and shutdown was horribly long (especially startup, it would take 5-7 minutes before I could even do anything on it). Updating the os took ages, every update that required a computer restart would take at least half an hour, sometimes a few hours. Don't even get me started on the looks, it's pretty ugly, and thick too. I love my new mac, its so beautiful, fast, and starts up instantly. And updates are very quick too.

 

[wordoflife]

Before:

Dell E1505
1.73 Core Duo
ATi x1400 128MB
2GB RAM
120GB HDD
Windows Vista

It wasn't a bad computer, but I did mess it up so ...

Current:

13" Macbook Pro, 2.4ghz baseline

 

[a-m-k]

None of the hardware failed on mine although the battery life is just crap right now (I haven't even used the battery that often). The thing that got me to buy a new laptop is because my HP is sooooo sloooww. I open 6 or 7 tabs in Safari and it'll freeze and crash (this is a daily occurence). Vista was so slow, it would often freeze for a few seconds doing light tasks and startup and shutdown was horribly long (especially startup, it would take 5-7 minutes before I could even do anything on it). Updating the os took ages, every update that required a computer restart would take at least half an hour, sometimes a few hours. Don't even get me started on the looks, it's pretty ugly, and thick too. I love my new mac, its so beautiful, fast, and starts up instantly. And updates are very quick too.

I had the same problem... at least three windows up and it was slow. With the MBP, its not a problem.

Did your power button all of the sudden not work after shutting it off for the night and when you wanted to use it the next day it wouldn't turn on. The only way to turn on the laptop was to swipe the LCD panel? We did. It was a dead mother board.

 

[lbro]

I had the same problem... at least three windows up and it was slow. With the MBP, its not a problem.

Did your power button all of the sudden not work after shutting it off for the night and when you wanted to use it the next day it wouldn't turn on. The only way to turn on the laptop was to swipe the LCD panel? We did. It was a dead mother board.

No my power button has always worked, although I've always had to push it quite hard for it to work. It's basically the slowness that convinced me to move on.